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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Call To Action: Help Scan Wikileaks For Security Contractor Information

Filed under: Call To Action,Industry Talk — Tags: Call To Action, Industry Talk, Iraq, private military, private security, security contractors, war logs, wikileaks — Matt @ 4:27 PM

This is a simple one, and I need everyone’s help with this. The dork at wikileaks posted more stuff about Iraq, and there are like 54 pages of information dealing with the search input ‘security contractors’. If folks can help me sift through this thing so we can identify what is true and what is false, that would be a big help. These reports are mostly from the military perspective, and just because it is on wikileaks does not make it true or correct. I hate giving wikileaks this kind of attention, but I feel I have no other choice.

The other reason I wanted to get this out there is to see if names have been used of contractors, or if any operational information that could be used to hurt guys was posted. The Pentagon could care less about our safety with these leaks, and have their own issues. So if you find stuff that is of concern, let me know via emails and we can do some damage control. Mostly I just need to know what to prepare for, so I can give everyone a heads up.

Most of the stuff I am seeing so far is pretty basic. Lots of IED or SAF reports where convoys were fired upon by the enemy, Iraqi police/army or the coalition. If anything, it shows how much combat contractors really faced in Iraq, and it definitely showed how dangerous and complex of an environment we operated in. –Matt

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Link to Iraq War Logs Explorer here.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Industry Talk: DoS Gives 8 Base Contract Awards For Worldwide Protective Services Program

Filed under: Afghanistan,Industry Talk,Iraq,Jobs — Tags: Aegis Defense Services, Department of State, DoS, DynCorp, EODT, Global Strategies Group, Industry Talk, International Development Solutions, private military companies, private security, security contracting, SOC, Torres International, Triple Canopy, world wide protective services, WPS — Matt @ 12:14 PM

Excellent news and congrats to all of these companies who won a contract. And now the real fun will begin. lol

Expect a flurry of training and vetting to get this massive security force up and running. DoS and these companies have their work cut out for them. –Matt

Edit: 10/02/2010 -Also check out Danger Room’s run down of the awards. TC lost the embassy gig in Iraq to SOC (potential of $974 million/5 year), and AGNA lost their gig at the Kabul Embassy to EODT( potential of $274 million/ 5 year). Xe was able to get an award via International Development Solutions.

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The Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) program provides comprehensive protective security services to support U.S. Department of State operations around the world.

Sep 30, 2010

The U.S. Department of State (DOS) made the following eight base contract awards for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security – Worldwide Protective Services (WPS) Program resulting from solicitation: SAQMMA10R0005 (-a) on September 29, 2010. The maximum program value is $10,000,000,000.00 USD. The maximum value is cumulative and includes all work performed by all contractors during the WPS program period of performance, including all option periods.The base contracts include a one year base period of performance with four one year option periods. DOS included the minimum guarantee of $5,000.00 for each WPS contractor with each base contract award.Please see section M of solicitation: SAQMMA10R0005 (-a) for more information on the evaluation criteria that DOS used to select the firms listed below for base contract awards.

Aegis Defense Services, LLC

DynCorp International, LLC

EOD Technology, Inc.

Global Strategies Group (Integrated Security), Inc.

International Development Solutions,

SOC, LLC.

Torres International Services, LLC.

Triple Canopy, Inc.

Link to FBO website here.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Industry Talk: EODT Awarded Security Contract To Protect Camp Duffman, Afghanistan

Filed under: Afghanistan,Jobs — Tags: Afghanistan, contractors, EODT, Jalalabad, Jobs, private military companies, private security, private security companies, security contractors, SOCNET, SSSI — Matt @ 1:18 AM

Congrats to EODT and I hope the contract goes well. Perhaps someone from the company would care to comment on this? Tim is located in Jalalabad and I am sure he knows a little something about this camp.

What is interesting is that there were a ton of FOB security solicitations that I posted awhile back, and no word on the awarding for that stuff. I did hear about a company called SSSI winning a contract, and Blackice Security posted the job ad for it. Here is a thread on SOCNET about them and the pay was pretty low if you ask me.

Also, I wanted to say that EODT is doing a fantastic job of getting their news out there. I got the heads up about this through an RSS feed they have. This ‘really simple syndication’ tool makes it very handy for getting the latest scoop about companies. Hopefully other companies will follow their lead and set up RSS feeds for their news and jobs. –Matt

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EODT Awarded Security Contract to Protect Camp Duffman, Afghanistan

LENOIR CITY, TN (September 27, 2010) – EODT was awarded a contract by the Afghanistan Regional Contracting Center to provide comprehensive security services at Camp Duffman, located near Jalalabad. The contract was the latest in a series of awards made to EODT under the AO Mountain Warrior ID/IQ security services base contract covering Eastern Afghanistan. The area has seen substantially increased insurgent activity over the past several months.

“While we are pleased to have won this contract, we are mindful of the danger our men and women in uniform routinely face in this region of Afghanistan,” said EODT’s President and CEO Matt Kaye. “We take our being selected as an expression of confidence in the capabilities and professionalism of our people, and we are anxious to begin work in support of their important mission”.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Jobs: PSD Personnel, Iraq

Filed under: Iraq,Jobs,United Kingdom — Tags: Gardaworld, Iraq, Jobs, private military companies, private security, PSD, security contractors, United Kingdom — Matt @ 2:13 AM

This job is for British and Commonwealth passport holders only. The job also requires that you have an SIA license. On the down side, the salary is pretty damned low if you ask me. Especially since Iraq is still an active war zone.

My other thought on this is that I think this is for an oil related contract, but I am just guessing. The oil companies are all using British companies in Iraq, and they have that market wrapped up pretty good.

I am not the POC or recruiter for this, and please follow the link below if you would like to apply. Good luck. –Matt

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GardaWorld Job Specification

Position: PSD Personnel

Job Type: Sub-contractor

Location: Iraq – various locations

Start Date: (subject to confirmation)Now 2010 – ongoing

Pay: Operator Rates starting from £172/day ($270 a day)

Rotation: 8 weeks on, 4 weeks off

Likely duration of task: Long-term

Travel/Flight Pay Details: Standard provision

Package:

Accommodation & food included, plus insurance & provision of flights from (nearest UK airport of departure) into theatre. For those contractors with an airport Hub outside the UK , the contractor will be required to pay difference in flight costs, compared to costs of flights from LHR.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Industry Talk: The Pony Express Comes To Afghanistan–Contractors Delivering Mail!

Filed under: Afghanistan,Industry Talk — Tags: Afghanistan, Aviation, Industry Talk, mail, pony express, postal service, private contractors, private security, security contractors, SOC, world wide language resources — Matt @ 1:54 AM

A hat tip to Danger Zone Jobs for putting this one out there. I haven’t a clue how these two companies will deliver this stuff, and it will either be by air or by convoy on land. I kind of assume that the SOC contract will be on land, just because they have folks over there doing convoy operations already. But you never know, and everyone might be using helicopters for this gig. I was not able to get many details about this one and if anyone in the know has stuff to add, just put it in the comments section.

Either way, I thought it was interesting to note that it is private industry once again, delivering the mail through some dangerous country for the US Government. What would really be cool is if these companies made team patches with Pony Express logos on them? lol –Matt

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Pony Express

World Wide Language Resources Awarded $13.9m for Postal Operations in AfghanistanBy Department of DefenseTuesday, September 14, 2010

World Wide Language Resources, Fayetteville, N.C., was awarded on Sept. 9 a $13,969,713 fixed-fee-price contract to provide postal operations in Afghanistan including, but not limited to, Bagram Airfield, Kandahar Airfield, Lagman, Airborne, Konduz, Fenty, Salerno, Sharana, Camp Phoenix, Camp Eggers, Tarin Kowt, Farah, Shank, and Qaiat.

Estimated completion date is Sept. 8, 2015, with work to be performed in Afghanistan.

Bids were solicited on the Web with four bids received. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-10-C-0047).

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SOC-Afghanistan Awarded $9.3m for US Mail Transportation Services

By Department of DefenseTuesday, September 14, 2010

SOC-Afghanistan, Minden, Nev., was awarded on Sept. 10 a $9,336,687 firm-fixed-price contract to provide U.S. mail transportation services from Bragram to Shank, Fenty, and Kabul.

Estimated completion date is Sept. 9, 2015, with work to be performed in Afghanistan.

Bids were solicited on the web with nine bids received. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-10-C-0059).

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